LOT 114 An illustration from a Bhagavata Purana series: Indra and other gods in battle with Bali and a demon army Guler, circa 1820
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126 x 230 mm.
An illustration from a Bhagavata Purana series: Indra and other gods in battle with Bali and a demon army Guler, circa 1820
gouache and gold on paper, yellow margin rules, verso nine lines of text in nagari script in black and red ink 126 x 230 mm.
|The subject illustrates Bhagavata Purana, canto 8, chapter 10: Indra is mounted on his elephant Airâvata, and accompanied by the other gods. The cloud of arrows, fired by Bali, referred to in the text is vividly captured at the top of the painting. 'Indra skilled as he was, in a quick response immediately cut the arrows rushing towards him to pieces with a different type of very sharp arrows [bhallas] and smiled about the fact that the enemy did not reach him'.
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